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Paul Bertin
@paulbertin.bsky.social
Junior lecturer at UNIL (Lausanne, Switzerland)
Conspiracy beliefs, meta-psychology, sports fandom
🚨 New paper out in the European Journal of Social Psychology!

Across one study using aggregated nation-level data and four preregistered experiments, we examined how freedom of speech within a society influences belief in conspiracy theories.
The Impact of Freedom of Speech on Conspiracy Beliefs
Conspiracy beliefs are often portrayed as a threat to democracies. However, less is known about the extent to which the state of democracy may affect conspiracy beliefs. Hence, we investigated the im...
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October 31, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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I am so excited to announce the publication of my first PhD paper, written in collaboration with Laurent Licata and amazing participants!

“We Are No Longer the First to Lead the Dance”: Analysing Intergroup Conflicts Within the French-Speaking Belgian Feminist Movement

doi.org/10.1002/casp...
doi.org
June 13, 2025 at 11:18 AM
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📢 Thèse en psychologie sociale

Le LAPSCO (Université Clermont Auvergne / CNRS) recrute un·e doctorant·e à partir du 1er octobre 2025, dans le cadre du projet ANR IDEOPOL portant sur la polarisation idéologique.

📄 Détail de l’offre et candidature :
tinyurl.com/nzw896bf

Merci de partager !
Portail Emploi CNRS - Offre d'emploi - Thèse en psychologie sociale expérimentale (H/F)
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May 28, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Merci à @adrienfillon.bsky.social et @nathlarigaldie.bsky.social pour ce super moment 😊

Version clickbait du titre : ils découvrent en live l'identité du pair qui a expertisé leur papier… leur réaction est incroyable !
June 2, 2025 at 10:15 AM
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If you work in psychology in a research area without Registered Reports, you will see that the main hypotheses in papers are almost always supported. If your peers publish Registered Reports, you will also have access to null results, which should be very common. doi.org/10.1177/2515...
May 29, 2025 at 5:02 AM
May 26, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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📢 AFR-PsyPol fait ses 1ers pas sur les réseaux ! Nous sommes l'Association Francophone pour la Recherche en Psychologie Politique et avons pour but de promouvoir la recherche et la coopération en #Psychologie #Politique. Envie d'en savoir davantage ? Découvrez nous ici : afr-psypol.org
Promouvoir la recherche et la coopération entre les chercheur·se·s et faciliter le partage du savoir sur la psychologie politique
afr-psypol.org
April 15, 2025 at 11:17 AM
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Inspired by my reading this week, I wrote a list of the resources I think every cognitive science researcher should read/listen to about theory development. It's in this google.doc (feel free to add your own suggestions) and in the thread below. docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Theory: Whtat to read
The role of theory in cognitive science Or: my guide to what to read if you really want to understand how to do good, robust , theory-driven cognitive science. (disclaimer: this is an aspirational gu...
docs.google.com
March 28, 2025 at 7:15 AM
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🚨 New Manylabs launch 🚀

How does extreme heat affect our cognition & social behaviors?

Contribute & become a co-author:
🔗 Info: heatandmind.wordpress.com
📋 Sign up: www.soscisurvey.de/HeatandCogni...

Please share 🔁
#EnvironmentalPsychology
The Heat and Cognition Project: The Collective Cost of Extreme Heat
heatandmind.wordpress.com
March 27, 2025 at 4:40 PM
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I am super happy to back my most appreciated and trustworthy partner in crime in this great piece (in all objectivity of course)! #metascience #transparency #virtuesignaling
New publication with my dearest friend, @kenzonera.bsky.social!

We propose that multi-study articles can hardly achieve conceptual novelty and statistical consistency while remaining transparent.

Fulfilling two of these criteria considerably reduces the probability of satisfying the third one.
New article by @paulbertin.bsky.social and @kenzonera.bsky.social considers the trilemma between novelty, consistency, and transparency in psychological research.

Open Access: rips-irsp.com/articles/10....
March 24, 2025 at 8:01 PM
New publication with my dearest friend, @kenzonera.bsky.social!

We propose that multi-study articles can hardly achieve conceptual novelty and statistical consistency while remaining transparent.

Fulfilling two of these criteria considerably reduces the probability of satisfying the third one.
New article by @paulbertin.bsky.social and @kenzonera.bsky.social considers the trilemma between novelty, consistency, and transparency in psychological research.

Open Access: rips-irsp.com/articles/10....
March 24, 2025 at 11:05 AM
Are there any fully online or hybrid conferences in social/political psychology?
March 17, 2025 at 12:48 PM
New paper on sports fans and political behaviors now in press at bsky.app/profile/ispp...

In late 2022, @paulinegrippa.bsky.social and I conducted an intercultural, longitudinal study on fans' motives for (not) boycotting the 2022 World Cup.

A 🧵
February 14, 2025 at 11:31 AM
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🚨New paper alert🚨

How do different "Great Replacement" conspiracy narratives (blaming relatively powerful left-wing elites or relatively powerless Muslim communities) affect radical collective action intentions against different targets across the political spectrum?

A 🧵 about what we found:
Our registered report with @valentinmang.bsky.social and @feitenglong.bsky.social has now been published in BJSP! We examined the radicalizing effects of different Great Replacement conspiracy narratives (Muslim vs. left-wing conspirators). See the link for the paper: doi.org/10.1111/bjso...
February 12, 2025 at 8:36 AM
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📌This Wednesday is our first colloquium in 2025!

@paulbertin.bsky.social speaks on 👉The Trilemma of Psychological Sciences and its Consequences on Open Science Practices 👈

#Opensicence #Trilemma

All information also for online participation: leibniz-psychology.org/en/products/...
Kolloquium for interested persons
The Trilemma of Psychological Sciences and its Consequences on Open Science Practices
leibniz-psychology.org
January 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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🌟 Applications Open: Social Identity Summer School 2025! 🌟

PhD students—don’t miss this chance to deepen your understanding of social identity theorising.

📅 Dates: 25 Aug – 1 Sep 2025
📍 Location: KU Leuven
💶 Fee: ± €650
🗓️ Apply by: 31 Jan 2025
📥 Apply here: www.kuleuven.be/english/summ...
The Second Social Identity Summer School 2025
www.kuleuven.be
December 16, 2024 at 3:46 PM
Glad to see that our research with @kenzonera.bsky.social and @slvdlv.bsky.social is robust!

Not very surprising, though: it was a conceptual replication, so not as risky as an original contribution (www.frontiersin.org/journals/psy...).
A new paper finds that replicability of social and behavioural science claims in COVID-19 preprints was 65.4% (this included a successfull replication from my own lab--Sternisko et al) www.nature.com/articles/s41...

This is just more evidence that research on COVID was actually quite robust.
December 26, 2024 at 11:08 AM
If you’re a researcher in psychology or a related field, please consider participating in Rrita's survey. It’s short, the project is great, and it will help support a brilliant young researcher 👇
November 27, 2024 at 10:02 PM
Out now in Psychology of Sport and Exercise:

'Football belongs to the people: A social identity perspective on attitudes toward the European Super League in the English Premier League'

with @mikeybiddlestone.bsky.social and Ricky Green

www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
Football belongs to the people: A social identity perspective on attitudes toward the European Super League in the English Premier League
The announcement of the European Super League (ESL) led to massive protests in England. While the ESL is officially being reshaped and may resurface, …
www.sciencedirect.com
November 19, 2024 at 2:38 PM
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🤩In one of the largest experiments conducted in #ClimateChange psychology –63 countries, 258 collaborators, almost 60k participants– we reveal targeted strategies to increase climate change awareness and action around the globe. out in
@ScienceAdvances
www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...
February 8, 2024 at 3:42 PM